Table 2.
Nutritional status of robust, physical frailty MCI, and cognitive frailty in the elderly.
| Nutritional Status | Total (n = 373) |
Robust a (n = 48) |
Physical Frailty b (n = 13) |
MCI c (n = 177) |
Cognitive Frailty d (n = 135) |
p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MNA-SF, n (%) At risk of malnutrition Malnourished |
221 (59.2) 31 (8.3) |
30 (62.5) 2 (4.2) |
6 (46.2) 3 (23.1) |
106 (59.9) 8 (4.5) |
79 (58.5) 18 (13.3) |
0.04 * |
| MNA-SF score, mean ± SD | 10.41 ± 1.84 | 10.79 ± 1.51 | 9.69 + 2.18 | 10.68 + 1.62 | 10.02 + 2.10 | <0.01 *,ab,ad,bc,cd |
| Triceps skinfold thickness (cm), mean ± SD | 18.17 ± 8.79 | 19.41 ± 8.14 | 22.86 ± 15.97 | 17.25 ± 7.17 | 18.49 + 9.84 | 0.08 |
| Low calf circumference, n (%) | 194 (52) | 17 (35.4) | 6 (46.2) | 96 (54.2) | 75 (55.6) | 0.09 |
| Calf circumference (cm), mean ± SD | 33.09 ± 4.55 | 34.20 ± 2.95 | 33.47 ± 3.55 | 33.32 ± 5.53 | 32.36 ± 3.48 | 0.08 |
| Underweight by BMI, n (%) | 42 (11.3) | 3 (6.3) | 1 (7.7) | 20 (11.3) | 18 (13.3) | 0.58 |
MCI, Mild cognitive impairment; MNA-SA, Mini Nutritional Assessment Short-Form; SD, Standard deviation; All p-values of the categorical variables were obtained from Chi-square test, for the parametric continuous variables, p-values were obtained from one-way ANOVA, for the non-parametric continuous variables, p-values were obtained Kruskal-Wallis test; * Statistically significant for p ≤ 0.05; The comparison groups were denoted as following a Robust, b Physical Frailty, c MCI, and d Cognitive Frailty; Statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05) for post-hoc pairwise comparison was denoted as following, ab Robust and Physical frailty, ac Robust and MCI, bd Physical frailty and Cognitive frailty, cd MCI and Cognitive frailty.